Our Song

Awhile ago Kellie blogged about the past and made me think of this....

Jason and I got together at a very young age, fifteen to be exact. Although we first "went out" back in March, we say that we officially became a couple on April 14th, 1990. That's right, do the math....over 16 years ago! Pretty amazing, if I do say so myself.

After his parents won a little pot in the lottery, Jason was awarded the family k-car, a little burgundy box to call his own. Even though it wasn't exactly a hot-rod, it was still much better than the little shit-brown escort that had left us stranded on numerous occasions. Jason always kept it clean and "pimped" it out(if that was even possible) with personal touches, like a novelty neon signal light that set in the back window, which would flash big right or left arrows accordingly. Jason and I spent many, many hours in that car, like most teenagers who have no place to call their own.

Years earlier, Jason's older brother Chris had bought a car which contained some old cassette tapes. Jason kept these tapes and sure enough they eventually found their way into the old k-car. One of them was a mixed tape that someone else had made. On this tape was a love song that shortly became "our song". The problem was that we had no idea what this song was called or who was singing it. I wrote the words down and we played the song for all of our friends and family but no one knew what this song was. We used to call it "A Case Like This". We made a copy of the tape, so we would always have this song - our song.

It wasn't until a couple of years ago when we purchased our own computer that the thought hit me to google the lyrics. And there it was, we finally knew that our song was................................... Somebody by Depeche Mode. Who would have thought that - depeche mode? Too funny. All this time we had no idea. We would have had it played at our wedding, had we known what song to request. It's so ridiculous now to think that we never thought to google the song before. But we were just so used to not knowing. Now looking back, I think that's what made the song so special to us, not just the lyrics but the fact that no one else seemed to have ever heard it before. I believe it was quite the hit song for Depeche Mode back in the day, but I had never heard the song before or since. Once I knew the title of the song, I immediately downloaded it and now have it on my computer to listen to whenever we want, much better quality than that old cassette tape(which we still own).

For those of you who might be like we were, and have never heard of this song, here are the lyrics :

Somebody - Depeche Mode

I want somebody to share

Share the rest of my life

Share my innermost thoughts

Know my intimate details

Someone who'll stand by my side

And give me support

And in return

She'll get my support

She will listen to me

When I want to speak

About the world we live in

And life in general

Though my views may be wrong

They may even be perverted

She'll hear me out

And won't easily be converted

To my way of thinking

In fact she'll often disagree

But at the end of it all

She will understand me

I want somebody who cares

For me passionately

With every thought and

With every breath

Someone who'll help me see things

In a different light

All the things I detest

I will almost like

I don't want to be tied

To anyone's strings

I'm carefully trying to steer clear of those things

But when I'm asleep

I want somebody

Who will put their arms around me

And kiss me tenderly

Though things like this

Make me sick

In a case like this

I'll get away with it